Consciousness
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs Other common causes of hallucinations are drugs, physical illness, starvation, and sleep deprivation, ...
Chapter Fourteen Reality and imagination Far more common, however, are hallucinations that are combined with the per- ceived wor ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs the two types occur at different times, for example a day apart. When they are fused, the two senses ...
One possible cause of straight lines of activation in visual cortex is disinhibition. Hallucinogenic drugs, lack of oxygen, sens ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs of hallucinations while their brain activity was recorded. Hallucinations of faces were associ- ated ...
Perhaps this reveals the similarity between the visual systems of animals and neural networks when they try to make sense of the ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs visual perception. But then we have to ask: what makes the higher-order state conscious? Why is there ...
Chapter Fourteen Reality and imagination hypothesis that best minimises prediction error. This is why our mental worlds are full ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs the mind–body problem. The Rhine Research Center, which still carries on their work, defines parapsyc ...
Chapter Fourteen Reality and imagination and many failures of replication (Irwin and Watt, 2007). In general, this method of ‘fo ...
●^390 seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs wear half ping-pong balls over their eyes to produce a uniform white or pink field – the ganzfe ...
something is qualitatively altered in hypnosis (see Chapter 13), this change in consciousness helps. Many more experiments would ...
does, and through this kind of play, children develop their knowledge about reality by stepping back from or going beyond it. Th ...
does, and through this kind of play, children develop their knowledge about reality by stepping back from or going beyond it. Th ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs But we may wonder whether this distinction between ‘real’ and ‘in the mind’ is all that clear. The h ...
for example, he cannot change his perspective so as to be able to see what is behind objects in front of him. But other factors ...
seCtIon FIVe: BoRDeRLAnDs physically present. Kirlian photography, which is sometimes claimed to record auras, actually measure ...
Blackmore, S. J. (2001). What can the paranor- mal teach us about consciousness? Skeptical Inquirer, 25 (2), 22–27. Uses ganzfel ...
CHAPTER Dreaming and beyond FIFteen I was on a ski lift, a double-seater chair, moving slowly up into the high snowy peaks. It w ...
Chapter Fifteen Dreaming and beyond both of which disrupt our ordinary sense of being a conscious self who looks out from inside ...
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